The Angel and the Timeball tower

This shot shows the war memorial clock (broken) with the angel statue on top. To the right is the Timeball tower. At 5 minutes to 1 pm each day, the black ball rises to the top of the post. At 1 pm it falls to the bottom. It is a device that has been used by ships at sea to set their clocks.

A local beach walk at Semaphore

July 30th 2005
Friends joined us for a walk along our local beach at Semaphore on Saturday. Semaphore is a lovely beach (yes I am biased). The water is reasonably shallow and the waves are small. This was a sunny winters day - about 17 or 18 degrees Celcius. Points of interest - the shells, the relatively empty beach, the white sand, the jetty, the Timeball tower, the Angel war memorial, The Palais, ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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